HAS BEEN LOADED

Yep, I have returned! That's right boys and girls, I'm back! A huge HUGE shoutout to a person named RapidSammi, who insipired me after like 5 months of inactivity to start writing. Unfortunately I don't think they are on much, which is ironic since it's their story I found that inspired me to keep going with this story, their new name is Savvyhon, and they seemed to have moved to Archive of Our Own, if any of you got profiles on there, tell em I said hi! And to any other people who viewed the story but didn't leave a review, I still saw you reading my work, and I appreciate it! Though please leave a review, last time I got like, 5. Which kinda made me feel uninspired. I also will try to post more often, ever since y'know with telltale. RIP Telltale, we'll never know how season 3 would happen. But yeah with the possibility of the fandom dying fast, I need to post more often. Without further ado, we are back to the story once more! Enjoy!

Everyone decided to take a break of their own, as Petra silently held a sleeping Jesse in her arms, saying not a word but stroked his hair as he peacefully slept.

Petra's gang were talking in their corner, while Lukas would occasionally shoot worried glances in Petra's direction.

"Well, we've got to do something! I hate sitting here!" Ivor said whilst pacing in a small circle.

"Oh hush now Ivor," Gabriel said. "I think we could all use a minute to think after recent events."

Lukas caught himself glancing at Petra once more. Jesse seemed to be stable, but Petra hadn't said a word since they scared the White Pumpkin off into...wherever his hideout was.

"Hate to agree with wizard 101 here," Magnus said, "But we have to get a lead on something about the White Pumpkin guy, being sitting ducks here is accomplishing nothing."

"Well then, what do you guys suggest?" Lukas said. "I do would like at least a small hint about the White Pumpkin, the fact he managed to almost ki-... defeat Jesse is kinda scary. He's one of the best fighters I know."

"Agreed on that one masked guy number errr, 3." Ivor said. "He managed to best me once, but that's a personal event. Of which I do not want to share of. But you have a point."

Lukas started pacing deep in thought.

"Well then, what do you propose we do about this matter?" Gabriel said from the side.

Lukas seemed deep in thought for several more moments, then he turned to the group.

"We need to interrogate the suspects. Well, more like ask them some questions, interrogate seems a bit harsh. They know more then they're letting on."

Ivor nodded. "A fine plan to me!"

Meanwhile Jesse was drifting in and out of conscious, and was slightly aware someone was holding him. He would of tried to say something, if a burning sensation in is arm made him scrunch up his eyes even more. He let out a barely audible whine and tried to move.

However the figure, seemingly female, had other plans. Jesse found himself restrained and kept in the position of being held by this person.

Head throbbing and eyes slightly getting a tad bit heavy, Jesse halfheartedly attempted to speak to the strange person.

All that came out was even a weaker whine.

Jesse, half awake, still managed to catch the girl move her head in his arms direction, as if almost checking his injury. He thought that if the girl was tending to his hurt arm, wherever he was or whoever she was, he could at least try to thank the person.

He shifted a little, perhaps just a bit more...

Even a sharper pain trying to move it, and Jesse managed to let out a soft cry. Were those tears coming out?

Suddenly as if reacting on instinct, the girl began humming a soft tune as if to comfort him.

Jesse also felt her fingers through his hair, he couldn't help but notice it was a nice sensation.

The blow to the head made him forget that he had already fallen asleep to this once before.

He really wanted to at least get up and walk around, but he wasn't exactly feeling the best, and he felt pretty damn comfortable where he was right now.

Her humming continued, and he relaxed and closed his eyes, relaxing and shifting back into her arms.

Petra would've let out a sigh of relief if she wasn't humming a song for Jesse, but at least he was asleep once more.

She saw movement in the corner of her eye, and she she immediately tensed up, but let her guard back down once she saw it was just Lukas.

"Hey, uh, Petra..." Lukas began.

"Hello."

Lukas felt a bit nervous at her deadpan simple response, it was clear she wanted to be left alone, but he kept his nerve. "We've uh, gotta talk about interrogating those people about the White Pumpkin, and... stuff. We think that one of them knows more then they are telling."

Petra subconsciously began nodding, the answer satisfying Lukas.

"I got Jesse."

"Are you sure you don't need the help P-"

"I said I GOT him." Petra repeated a bit more firmly then last time.

Lukas flinched, but nodded anyways. He didn't like Petra snapping at him, but that was probably because he almost slipped and said her name a bit too close to Ivor when Lukas tried raising his voice a little. Like or not he agreed with Petra, someone needed to watch over Jesse in case a certain pumpkin decided to make another surprise appearance.

Lukas saw the others were just sitting around, doing nothing. He felt a tad bit irritated they wanted to "Solve" Who the White Pumpkin is.

Stacy, Dan, and Stampy we're just sitting around, probably thinking about stuff that Lukas probably could care less about. Cassie had said something about "Resting her legs because she felt sore" or something like that. Either way it seemed like he'd have to solve this himself.

Lukas walked back over to his group, and informed them of the situation.

"So basically, I think me and M- er, my buddy will go investigate."

Ivor nodded. "Well at least someone is doing something, I'll keep an eye out for anything and holler if I see anything."

Gabriel raised his hand.

Ivor facepalmed. "Look, you don't need to raise your hand."

"Well," Gabriel began, "What shall I do?"

"Keep an eye on our 'mutual friends' I don't exactly trust them."

Gabriel seemed to be in deep thought, eventually he nodded in agreement. "Very well. I'll make sure they don't do anything out of the ordinary."

Lukas nodded and began investigating. Instinct screamed for him to look at the paintings, ever since the confrontation in the library happened, he'd been wary of any paintings he saw. That would probably be a good start for investigating.

"Magnus," Lukas whispered. "Over here."

"Whaddya find?"

"I think the White Pumpkin is using the paintings to get around the mansion. Remember the whole fiasco in the library?"

Magnus nodded "I suppose that isn't a bad place to start."

Lukas walked past the others, and punched the first painting that screamed "Secret" and that being a painting of the White Pumpkin himself.

CRACK

The painting collapsed and revealed a secret passage.

The three sitting nearest to the paintings gasped, as they saw the secret passage.

Lukas stepped in, and saw, oh good, a puzzle!

A cobweb, a poison arrow, and a sand block rested in their respective frames, and a metal door to the left of them blocked any sort of entry.

"Greeaaat," Magnus said sarcastically, "More puzzles to solve! If he's gonna have secret passages, why bother making puzzles if he expected no one to find them at all?"

Lukas shrugged. "Maybe he had a lot of time on his hands."

He inspected them closely, then suddenly it him him.

Poison arrow stabbed Torque in the back, killing him.

Sand toppled down onto Sparkelz, suffocating him.

Webs, likely from the spiders that devoured Lizzie mercilessly in the Library.

"He planned their deaths from the start in that order..." Lukas said.

"Come again?" Magnus said, not understanding.

"Remember how the people died from these things? He had them planned specifically in that order."

Lukas took the arrow, placed it in first. Then the sand. Lastly the web.

The metal doors opened, much to Lukas and Magnus's satisfaction.

"Nice, there we go," Lukas said. "We just needed a little thought into it."

"Oh wow! You got it open!"

Lukas jumped, the three people from before managed to sneak up on him and Magnus.

"Well er," Lukas said as the five of them stood awkwardly. "Are you guys coming or?"

"Uh, we don't exactly feel safe going in there," Stacy said. "Sorry."

"Hey, relax chumps," Magnus said. "Being brave is our thing, it's perfectly fine to play the helpless civilian."

Stampy seemed to take offense. "Hey, just because we don't want to get killed by a chop happy pumpkin wearing maniac, doesn't mean we're helpless."

Magnus rolled his eyes. "Ok sure, have fun sitting down and doing nothing."

The three of them seemed to be fed up with Magnus, as they turned around and walked back into the main room.

Lukas facepalmed, and him and Magnus walked through the metal doors only to see...

"A pit?" Magnus said, almost as if he was having issue absorbing what he was seeing.

How were they going to get past this one?

"Maybe he can fly?" Magnus suggested.

Lukas responded by staring blankly at him.

"What?"

"Nothing." Lukas said. They couldn't risk a hunch of water being down there, they needed...

"A ladder!"

"Eh?"

"Can't just jump down right?" Lukas said. "I think Petra had some wood on her, maybe she can lend some?"

Magnus shrugged. "She sounds like she could go off at any given moment, be my guest."

If Lukas had the energy he would've sighed. But he still had to talk to Petra.

Petra looked at Jesse, who lied there peacefully in slumber. He occasionally would move a little and make a "Mph." like noise, and a muscle spasm or two made him subconsciously cuddle into Petra's embrace.

She smiled under the mask.

So cute.

"Psst, uh, Petra?"

Petra looked up where Lukas was standing.
"Hi Lukas."

"Hey, yeah... we need a ladder, do you still have those wooden blocks?"

She responded by dropping a pile of sticks onto the floor.

"Sorry, I whittle when I get nervous.

"Actually Petra, this is exactly what I need," Lukas said. "Thanks."

With his prized sticks in hand, he walked back over to Magnus, who was crouched down over the pit squinting to see if there was any sort of thing to land on.

"Hey, Magnus. Got the sticks."

"Finally," Magnus said a bit to snobby to Lukas's liking. "Did redhead explode on ya?"

Lukas shook his head. "Actually no, she's a bit quiet though, and I'm not sure that I like that. But I got the sticks anyways."

"Perfect! Then let's build some ladders. Alot of them."

They went to work, building well, a ton of ladders, it was a pretty steep drop after all.

Satisfied with their work, they began placing ladders slowly down, down, down, down, and down.

Finally they reached solid ground, and hopped off into a cave.

"Think we'll run into the White Pumpkin?" Lukas said thoughtfully.

Magnus nodded. "Sure hope we do squirt, there are some things I'd like to say to him face to face."

Lukas couldn't disagree, like why would the White Pumpkin just quite literally "axe" people off for treasure, if it was that important to him couldn't he been a normal person and just, y'know, ask?

Lukas and Magnus kept going, and they began to hear a very familiar groaning noise.

"Do you hear..."

"Yep. Zombies."

Taking out their swords, they proceeded further inside the cave, until they stumbled onto some jail cells and saw zombies, who were startled from doing...nothing, began to pound against the cell bars, obviously irritated from their presence.

Magnus rolled his eyes, and kept going further into the cave, until something caught his eye.

"Zombie Spawners?"

Lukas looked up. "A zombie what?"

Magnus pointed the tip of his sword to the small caged box inside the cell. Inside was a small zombie who was spinning at an alarming speed, flames also came from the inside of the box.

Suddenly, a poof was heard, and another zombie stood there.

Lukas stared hard at what he just saw. "Wait," Lukas began, "Do you mean that horde of zombies outside was the White Pumpkin's doing?"

"Seems to be that way?"

"Great. Just when you think he couldn't get any more psycho."

Lukas found himself very wrong when the next thing they saw made Lukas even more sick.

A pool of water filled with hoppers on the bottom presented itself upon them entering the room.

"Hey, that looks sorta familiar..." Magnus said thoughtfully.

His thought process was quickly cut off when some items dropped down and landed into the water.

"Where did that?"

"It's the victims loot," Magnus said quickly. "Back at Soren's fortress, we had something like that."

Lukas shuddered. He remembered that fiasco all too well.

They watched as the loot was sucked up into the hoppers and went up a glass tube.

Either the fact that the White Pumpkin made this just for loot from his victims that he murdered, or the disgusting noise it made when the loot got sucked in, either way made Lukas sick to his stomach.

"That ledge up there should lead to his lair, it's the way the tubing is going. It's always that."

Lukas grabbed some blocks and they begun to build up the ledge, and noticing that some monsters were falling down. Not wanting to complicate things, they built up quickly and Lukas hopped onto the ledge.

Only did he notice a spider climbing up on the tower, right behind Magnus.

"Magnus! Spider!"

Magnus responded by sitting down, his legs dangling off the edge, regarding the spider with the utmost of boredom.

Once the spider got too close, it was treated to a boot in the fangs, causing it to fall back down on the floor on it's back.

Lukas did a quick quiet clap, and Magnus hopped onto the ledge, and they continued.

Meanwhile, a certain someone was continuing to get coddled by a certain redhead.

Petra was still pretty on edge, and the fact that Jesse was still conked out didn't help her worrying.

Anyone who got too close, she would stare right back at them until they backed down.

Well, for the new guys anyway, people from her group would just get a light glare.

But Jesse, although unconscious, certainly didn't seem to be the least bit uncomfortable, his muscles spasms had stopped, and he didn't mutter as if he was having a bad dream. He was just so darn cute when he had that darned little smile he had on his face. This lightened up Petra a little, enough to have the daring hope that maybe, just maybe, they could get out of this alive.

Wow, this is one of the easiest chapters I've wrote in a while, well, it's the only chapter I wrote in a while, heh. I hope you enjoyed, and I hope Sammi sees this since that's like my main critic guy XD

As always, please please please review! And they will definitley come out more sooner then the hiatus I took! Until next time, TOODLES!